Product Description: As middle-class incomes stagnate in advanced economies while the rich experience record income gains, the 11th semi-annual Munk Debate pits wealth redistribution supporters Paul Krugman and George Papandreou against Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer to debate taxation — should the rich pay more? For some the answer is obvious: redistribute the wealth of the top income earners who have enjoyed, for almost a generation, the lion’s share of all income gains...read more

Product Description: In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavors. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15 trillion...read more

Product Description: Is China’s rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century...read more

Product Description: Canadians have come to embrace their country as a “postmodern state”—a nation that downplays its history and makes few demands on its citizens, allowing them to find their allegiances where they may—in their region, their ethnic heritage or the language they speak...read more

Product Description: Twelve years from now, Canada could be a vastly different place from what it is today. Will the country still play a role in the United Nations? Will its citizens face tough environmental restrictions? How will we relate to our southern neighbours? Will Canada still be a democracy? In Canada in 2020: Twenty Leading Voices Imagine Canada’s Future, twenty of Canada’s leading commentators explore the ways in which this country is likely to change (or not) over the coming decades...read more

Product Description: Canadians have long thought of their country as a study in difference? We see ourselves as a polyglot and restless nation?a country that is on one hand comfortable with our mishmash sense of ourselves, but also prone to worrying about what binds us together as Canadians...read more

Product Description: November 2008 will mark a historic moment in American politics as the people of the United States choose their 44th president. At a time when dissatisfaction with the status quo has reached momentous proportions — regardless, in many cases, of partisan affiliation — and two Democratic party candidates have pushed race and gender boundaries, this election is primed to be particularly significant...read more

Product Description: Despite generations of talking, trading, intermarrying, and fighting together as allies — not to mention sharing a border — Canadians cherish ideas about the United States that may not be true, ideas that often lead to a distorted perception of American society...read more

Contributions by leading academic writers including Bernard Lewis, Michael Ignatieff, and Robert Kaplan evaluate U.S. foreign policy since September 11, in an anthology of essays that explores such topics as the effort to bring democracy to the middle east, America's perceived rise as an imperial power, and America's potential for success.

Product Description: Ask a great question, spark a great debate.Does history matter? Is Canada a nation of too many identities? Where have all the heroes gone? Is there life after unity?The answers to these and other key questions are as varied and provocative as the writers who penned them: social commentators Neil Bissoondath, Barry Cooper, Charlotte Gray, Michael Ignatieff, Naomi Klein, and Peter C...read more